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Aretha Teckentrup Awarded LMS Whitehead Prize

Published: Tuesday, 13 July 2021 Tags: Analysis Probability prizes

Dr Aretha Teckentrup has been awarded a London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize for her incisive research contributions to the foundations of research in uncertainty quantification, at the interface of numerical analysis and probability.

Jacob Page and Moritz Linkmann were part of a successful bid to the ExCALIBUR programme which aims to future-proof high priority simulation codes and algorithms

Published: Wednesday, 9 June 2021 Tags: Computational Mathematics funding award

Jacob Page and Moritz Linkmann were part of a successful bid led by EPCC to the ExCALIBUR (Exascale Computing: ALgorithms and Infrastructures Benefiting UK Research) programme which aims to future-proof high priority simulation ...

ICMS Appoints New Director

Published: Tuesday, 8 June 2021 Tags: international jobs

ICMS is pleased to announce that Professor Minhyong Kim has been appointed as Director of the ICMS and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at both Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh.

ASA DataFest 2021 @ EDI Challenge

Published: Friday, 14 May 2021 Tags: Analysis

36 teams participated in the ASA DataFest 2021 @ EDI Challenge between the 26th and 28th of March, 2021. ASA DataFest is a data analysis competition where teams of up to five students attack a large and complex surprise dataset ...

Jacob Page has been awarded an EPSRC grant

Published: Wednesday, 12 May 2021 Tags:

Jacob Page has been awarded an EPSRC grant entitled "Exact Coherent Structures in Viscoelastic Turbulence" in collaboration with Professor Richard Kerswell, University of Cambridge. Viscoelasticity, which is the presence ...

Jacques Vanneste has been awarded a NSF-NERC grant

Published: Wednesday, 12 May 2021 Tags: Statistics

Jacques Vanneste has been awarded a NSF-NERC grant entitled "Scattering of ocean surface gravity waves by submesoscale turbulence" in collaboration with Professor William Young, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Ocean ...

Academic Interview - Sara Wade

Published: Wednesday, 12 May 2021 Tags:

Taraneh latifi Seresht and Manjari Agrawal have worked together to produce this article as part of our series of Academic Interviews; featuring Sara Wade! A researcher and lecturer in the fields of statistics and machine learning, ...

PhD student Jacob Bradley awarded a 2021 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award

Published: Wednesday, 5 May 2021 Tags: funding award

PhD student Jacob Bradley has been awarded a 2021 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! The award comes from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and covers costs for travelling to a conference that an individual intends ...

PhD students Ivet Galabova and Calum Strange win place in 2021 cohort of Venture Builder Incubator

Published: Thursday, 8 April 2021 Tags:

PhD students Ivet Galabova and Calum Strange have won a place in the 2021 cohort of the Venture Builder Incubator. This is designed for data-driven PhD students looking to develop entrepreneurial skills, build a team and turn ...

Victor Elvira awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship entitled "Automatic and self-assessed Bayesian inference for real-world dynamic systems"

Published: Thursday, 8 April 2021 Tags: Computational Mathematics Fellowship

Victor Elvira has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship entitled "Automatic and self-assessed Bayesian inference for real-world dynamic systems" worth almost £60,000.

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